Re: video utility

[Carnë Draug]

On 8 October 2012 12:02, ANTON UREVC <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Reading a movie with Octave (octave ver. 3.4.3) apparantly has some issues
> with video codecs - ffmpeg. Based on my experience an suitable avi codec,
> installing ffmpeg/avformat/avutils and testing the video-1.0.2 and video
> -1.0.1 package the problem was not solved.
>
> Warning after video-1.0.1 and video-1.0.2 installation in octave is as
> follows:
>
> warning: this package is empty,
>
> After testing the video-1.0.0 a usability and presence of avformat header
> files is not found. The error is
>
> configure: error: FFMpeg header files not found
> ...
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking ffmpeg/avformat.h usability... no
> checking ffmpeg/avformat.h presence... no
> checking for ffmpeg/avformat.h... no
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /usr/local/share/octave/3.4.3/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1327, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.4.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 790, column 5
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.4.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 361, column 9
>
>
> Any information would be thankfull.

The video package has been in a very bad state for a long time now and
is unmaintained. Multiple users have submitted patches to it and I am
told that the development release compiles and is usable. However, no
one has prepared a release yet. You can try to install the development
version yourself. If you can't, I know that some developers can be
convinced to fix and make a release for you.

Carnë